Naika Foroutan (Persian: ????? ??????; born 24 December 1971 in Boppard) is a German social scientist.
Since 2011 she is head of the research group "Young Islam-related topics in Germany" (junited) at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin (HU); In June 2015, she was appointed professor of "Integration research and Social policy" by Humboldt-Universität.
In addition, she is secretary of the five-member board of the German Council for Migration; Since 2017 also head of the "German Centre for Integration and Migration Research" (DeZIM).Since May 2018, Foroutan is the director of the "Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration research" (BIM) and is head of the "Integration research and social policy" working area.